Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-06-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1881.
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

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The Catholic Sisters will soon begin
the construction of a three-story brick
academy at North Yakima. The acad-
emy at the old town will be discon-
| tinued.
Supt. J. M. Buckley says the North
ern Pacific has reports from Eastern
Washington representing the yield of
wheat there this season at $4,000 to
4OO, 900 tons.
The wool-rate to New York, for COM
pressed bales, is now 81 50 per 100
pounds. To St. Paul and Missouri
river points 81 05 per hundred pounds,
and to Milwaukee and Chicago, 81 10.
Guilford Miller, the principal of the
celebrated case upon which the ques-
ton of indemnity lands has turned, is
a plain ordinary young farmer, u
years of age, and resides with his
mother upon the controverted farm,
about fifteen miles from Colfax.
1t is reported that the Port Blakely
Mill Company has sold its tug, the
Blakely, delivery to be made in six
weeks. This means, it is said, that the
Port Blakely company intends to con-
tinue the Politkofsky in the log-towing
business and either build or buy .
powerful tug for ship-towing.
Barton Atkins, United States Mar
shall of Alaska, arrived in Tacoma last
week, having with him Herbert A.
Williams, sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years for having shot
and struck with slung-shot N. R.
Mills, prominent merchant of Sitka.
Williams was taken to McNeil's island.
Port Townsend Argus: It seems to
be quite fashionable for County Com
missioners to become claw unto
themselves" and pay their political
debts with the peoples money. In
King and Whatcom counties this year
the official printing has been awarded
to favorite newspapers at rates consid-
erably higher than were stipulated by
other bidders.
The local option question seems to
be knotty one for the Judges of this
Territory. The Whatcom Reveille
says: Langford held the law uncon-
stitutional, Turner held it constitution
al; Jones of this district has refused to
pass upon its merits until the meeting
of the Supreme Court in July, and
Allyn has certified the question to the
Supreme Court for final action.
The big Cascade tunnel is now
about half completed. Some trouble
is experienced ON this side owing to
the rock swelling after exposure to the
air. This swelling has been 90 great
in instances that timbers foot square
have been broken in two. When the
tunnel was ], 800 feet in and at . point
400 feet from the summit, slabs Of
slate bearing impressions Of leaves and
plants were taken out.
w. w. Journal, Sth: Saturday even
ing an emigrant wagon containing
the mere necessities of life and fam
lily Of four or five, drawn by four cows
and two steers, passed up Main street
bound for Ritzville. Two men, . boy
and calf a-foot formed . part Of the
cavalcade. Inquiry elected the in
formation that they were from Forsyth,
Mo-, and that they had been twelve
months on their weary way.
An exchange says that come $4,000
feet from the eastern opening of the
Cascade tunnel, and about 400 feet
down from the surface Of the noun.
tain, geology illustrates the great
changes which past ages have pro-
duced in the physical character Of the
earth, in slabs of slate upon which are
the plain, clear imprint Of leaves and
|eplants, thus showing that depth to
have once been the vegetation-bearing
surface. Mineralbearing rock is also
found.
An Ellensburgh special to the w
w. Journal dated May, 17th, says:
Last night Deputy us. Marshal Ar
thur arrested Byron Crism and Fred
Hegel for counterfeiting. Hegel has
turned states evidence. The outfit
and spurious coin have been recovered
from a factory at the edge of town.
They had passed $24 at Yakima and
$12 here. The ring leader, Chas.
Brown, and old offender, escaped last
night at the third crossing. The off,
GERS and Brown and friends had fight
in which d. C. Cisco's right hand was
shot.
Signal: On Saturday. May 18th, q
son OF Engineer Thos. Ireland, aged
eleven years, met with shocking
accident, at Kennewick, which result
ed in the loss of a hand. Hepicked up
a dynamite cartridge and not knowing
the danger that lurked therein COM
menced picking at it with some sharp
implement. the explosive was dis
charged taking off the poor boys
left hand at the wrist. A portion of
the severed member was driven into
the young lads leg, causing a painful
wound. He was taken to Sprague
for surgical treatment.
The Nsnaimo relief fund on this
coast already amounts 10 upwards of
twenty-five thousand dollars. San